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    Ethics in research involves applying principles like protecting participants, ensuring honest reporting, and maintaining integrity. Some key ethical considerations for research include obtaining informed consent, avoiding bias, and keeping good records. Professional codes address principles like honesty, objectivity, integrity, care, openness, respecting intellectual property, confidentiality, and responsible publication.

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    ETHICS IN RESEARCH

    Ethics are norms or standards of behavior that guide moral choices about our behavior and our
    relationship with others. Ethics differ from legal constraints, in which generally accepted
    standards have defined penalties that are universally enforced. The goal of ethics in research is
    to ensure that no one is harmed or suffers adverse consequences from research activities.

    Research ethics involves the application of fundamental ethical principles to a variety of topics
    involving scientific research. These include the design and implementation of research involving
    human experimentation, animal experimentation, various aspects of academic scandal, including
    scientific misconduct (such as fraud, fabrication of data and plagiarism), whistle blowing;
    regulation of research, etc.

    As the research is designed, several ethical considerations must be balanced e.g.

     Protect the rights of the participant or subject.


     Ensure the sponsor receives ethically conducted and reported research.
     Follow ethical standards when designing research
     Protect the safety of the researcher and team
     Ensure the research team follows the design

    Ethical issues/ Considerations while collecting data


    Given the importance of ethics for the conduct of research, it should come as no surprise
    that many different professional associations, government agencies, and universities have
    adopted specific codes, rules, and policies relating to research ethics. The following is a
    summary of some ethical principles that various codes address:
    Honesty

    Strive for honesty in all scientific communications. Honestly report data, results, methods
    and procedures, and publication status. Do not fabricate, falsify, or misrepresent data. Do
    not deceive colleagues, granting agencies, or the public.

    Objectivity
    Strive to avoid bias in experimental design, data analysis, data interpretation, peer review,
    personnel decisions, grant writing, expert testimony, and other aspects of research where
    objectivity is expected or required. Avoid or minimize bias or self-deception. Disclose
    personal or financial interests that may affect research.

    Integrity
    Keep your promises and agreements; act with sincerity; strive for consistency of thought
    and action.
    Carefulness
    Avoid careless errors and negligence; carefully and critically examine your own work and
    the work of your peers. Keep good records of research activities, such as data collection,
    research design, and correspondence with agencies or journals.

    Openness
    Share data, results, ideas, tools, resources. Be open to criticism and new ideas.

    Respect for Intellectual Property


    Honor patents, copyrights, and other forms of intellectual property. Do not use
    unpublished data, methods, or results without permission. Give credit where credit is due.
    Give proper acknowledgement or credit for all contributions to research. Never plagiarize.

    Confidentiality
    Protect confidential communications, such as papers or grants submitted for publication,
    personnel records, trade or military secrets, and patient records.

    Responsible Publication
    Publish in order to advance research and scholarship, not to advance just your own career.
    Avoid wasteful and duplicative publication.

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